“The Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:28.
16. What, through the prophet Isaiah, does the Lord call the Sabbath?
“If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day.” Isa. 58:13.
17. Why does the Lord call the Sabbath His day?
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Ex. 20:11.
18. Through whom did God create the world?
“God ... hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, ... by whom also He made the worlds.” Heb. 1:1, 2.
Notes.—From beginning to end, the Bible recognizes but one weekly Sabbath,—the day upon which God rested in the beginning; which was made known to Israel at Sinai (Neh. 9:13, 14); was observed by Christ and His apostles; and is to be kept by the redeemed in the world to come. Isa. 66:22, 23.
The terms Sabbath, Sabbaths, and Sabbath days occur sixty times in the New Testament, and in every case but one refer to the seventh day. In Col. 2:16, 17, reference is made to the annual sabbaths connected with the three annual feasts observed by Israel before the first advent of Christ.
The first day of the week is mentioned but eight times in the New Testament, six of which are found in the four Gospels, and refer to the day on which Christ arose from the dead. See Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1, 19. The other two (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2) refer to the only religious meeting held on the first day of the week after the ascension, in apostolic times, recorded in the New Testament, and to a systematic accounting and laying by in store at home on that day for the poor saints in Judea and Jerusalem.